Vladimir Borisovitch Pastukhov (Russian: Влади́мир Бори́сович Пастухо́в; born 22 April 1963) is a Russian political scientist, lawyer (advocate) and honorary senior research associate of the University College London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

He is an author of the so-called "constitution by concepts", which is a written code of unwritten rules that define the real substance of life in Russia.

[2] In 1989, Pastukhov defended his thesis on the topic "The political power in socialistic society: the essence and the appearance (gnosiological aspect of the study)" at the Institute of State and Law and became a candidate of juridical sciences.

In July 2008, he and his colleague Eduard Khayretdinov as a representers of Hermitage Capital Management filed a complaint demanding to open a criminal case for fraud to a law-enforcement agencies.

Since 2015, he is honorary senior research associate of the University College London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

On 5 May 2023, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation declared Vladimir Pastukhov a "foreign agent".